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The Wheaton Lyons represents Massachusetts' Wheaton College and fields 21 varsity intercollegiate teams, 9 for men and 12 for women, in addition to 14 club sports programs and a variety of intramural activities. The school's teams play within the NCAA Division III and in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC).
Wheaton College is a private liberal arts college in Norton, Massachusetts. Wheaton was founded in 1834 as a female seminary . The trustees officially changed the name of the Wheaton Female Seminary to Wheaton College in 1912 after receiving a college charter from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
1 The Stockbridge School of Agriculture, a division of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has separate athletic programs from UMass in basketball and golf. See also [ edit ] List of NCAA Division I institutions
Website. www .wheaton .edu. Wheaton College is a private Evangelical Christian liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois. [3] It was founded by evangelical abolitionists in 1860. [4] Wheaton College was a stop on the Underground Railroad and graduated one of Illinois' first black college graduates.
Many colleges and universities in Massachusetts are active in college athletics. There are a number of NCAA Division I members in the state for multiple sports: Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern University, Harvard University, College of the Holy Cross, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Lydia Folger Fowler (1842), first female medical professor in the United States at the Rochester Eclectic Medical College. Caroline Haven Ober (1884), founder of the Department of Romance Languages, University of Washington. Patricia A. King (1964), Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Medicine, Ethics, and Public Policy, Georgetown University ...
Charter members included Babson College, Brandeis University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Smith College, Wellesley College and Wheaton College, beginning the 1985–86 academic year. 1988 - The NEW-6 has been rebranded as the New England Women's 8 Conference (NEW-8), beginning the 1988–89 academic year.
The UMass Minutemen are the athletic teams that represent the University of Massachusetts Amherst; strictly speaking, the Minutemen nickname applies to men's teams and athletes only — women's teams and athletes are known as Minutewomen. The Minutemen and Minutewomen compete in NCAA Division I sports competition primarily as members of the ...